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Drowning in Dystopia

What two Hollywood flops can teach us about optimism

Oct 9

Illustration of a fictional city skyline. Golden, futuristic and utopian on the left; dark, crumbling and dystopian on the right.

Oct 9

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Japonica Publication

If People Wrote About Britain the Way They Write About Japan

Or, how to write about a place as if it’s strange and exotic

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The River Thames, Tower Bridge and the Shard, as seen from London Bridge.

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Counter Arts

‘Waiting for Godot’: Beckett’s Blank Canvas at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

Director James Macdonald strips away the details, letting the characters speak for themselves

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Estragon and Vladimir look out at the audience in ‘Waiting for Godot,’

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Owen Schaefer

The Real ‘Curse of Oak Island’ Is the Show’s Terrible Producers

This trash-television could be telling a story, but the showrunners just aren’t interested

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Rick Lagina gestures while explaining something, in The Curse of Oak Island.

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E³ — Entertain Enlighten Empower

Why Authors Cross Out Their Names When Signing a Book

A brief history of the authorial strikethrough

Oct 27

An autograph with crossed-out printed name.

Oct 27

Owen Schaefer

The Sometimes Terrible Movies that Made Me Love Movies

Films I couldn’t get enough of when I was young, even though some of them are trash

Oct 25

Loops of film on a white background.

Oct 25

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Ellemeno

How I Tried to Write About Three Books that Changed Me

But it wasn’t about the books at all

Oct 20

Three worn books sit in a stack.

Oct 20

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E³ — Entertain Enlighten Empower

E³ Q&A — Owen Schaefer: Everything You Never Needed to Know

The E³ — Entertain, Enlighten, Empower questionnaire that everyone’s talking about

Oct 10

A shelf filled with hardcover books.

Oct 10

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Ellemeno

If You Want to Know a Place, Travel at a Human Pace

Thoughts after walking through the Cotswolds

Sep 26

Thistles in the foreground as a woman hikes along a countryside trail.

Sep 26

Owen Schaefer

Review: Slave Play Holds a Mirror to Its Audiences

Jeremy O. Harris’s challenging show arrives in London’s West End

Aug 14

Olivia Washington as Kaneisha, and Kit Harington as Jim on the stage of the Noël Coward Theatre in ‘Slave Play’

Aug 14

Owen Schaefer

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Born in a hollow log and raised by wolves. Now writing about the arts, culture, travel and the world. Fiction may occur.

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